Golf-club.



No. 837,030. I PATENTED NOV. 27, 1906. P. G. BLANCHARD. GOLF CLUB.

APPLIUATION FILED 0GT.2, 1905.

5 m 7M. Ly YZQA more particularly to means for increasing the 7 i m TED STATES PATENT OFFICE. FREDERICK C. BLANCIlnR-D. OF FORT WAYNE INDIANA.

GOLF-CLUB.

I No. 837,030.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 27,1906.

Application filed oaober z, 1905. Serial N6. 280.897.

Improvement in Golf-Clubs, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention relates to golf-clubs, and

efiiciency and accuracy of the play which can be made thereby.

My invention will be best understood by reference to the following description when taken in connection with the accom anying illustration of one specific embodiment thereof, whileits sco e will be more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a golf-club embodying one form of my invention and looking toward the front or nose of the head. Fig. 2 is a similar view, in front elevation, looking toward the striking-face of the head. Fig. 3 is a detail of the head in plan and on an enlarged scale; and Fi s. 4, 5, and- 6 are sections, on an enlargetI scale, taken, respectively, on the lines 44, -5 5, and 6 6 in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, I have. there illustrated one form of my invention by the embodimentthereof in a utter, which, as

is well known to those skil ed in the game of golf, is a club'employed upon the utting green to direct the ball into the ho e. The

stroke with the putter hasto be delivered with reat delicacy and accuracy in order to roll '0 e ball in the 'proper direction, and I have here shown means for assisting the player, whenpreparing for and delivering the low, tobring the head into alinement with the ball and the hole, so that an accurate stroke is likely to result.

The golf-club illustrated has the head a formed of anysuitable material, to which is attached in any desired manner the handle I). The latter may be of any shape or construction, but for the particular purpose shown. is slightly'inclined, as in Fig. 2, and provided with a grasping portion 0, having a non-circular, herein oval or flattened, cross-section,

, (shown in Fig. 4,) so that the player when standing with the ball in front of hnn can hold the club without danger of its turnin and swing the striking-face d of the head usual in putters, the stri -face at is,ver-' tical when. the club is hel to make the stroke, so that the ball tends to roll along the green when the stroke is properly delivered.

Upon the head I have provided ahmng means which may be formed, imprinted, or placed thereon in any suitable manner and n any suitable location, but which hereln 1s my the form of a raised elongated ridge 6 on the against theball with a gentle tap. As is top of the head, extending transversely the same and over the tongue f, formed at the back thereoi. This ridge is preferably perpendicular to the plane of the strikmgace and substantially over the str king center thereof, or-such portion as is intended to strike the ball on delivery of the stroke, so that as the player places and swings the club he maysight along the ridge and guide the club to cause the striking-face of-the latter to strike the ball with the ridggg the ball, and the hole allinalinement. If t be done,-he may be assured that the alinement of the stroke will be accurate. 1

If desired, the sighting-mark may be wholly at therear of the striking-face; but in the illustrated embodiment of my invent on I have provided the tongue 9, overhangin the striking-face and carrying an extension of the ridge, which in delivering the stroke extends out and over the ball, thus iving player in ma 'ing a bilities of the alining dvice, but the provision of the long cross-sectional dimension of the handle'parallel with the striking-face of the head when the club is in position. not only effectually prevents the-club from turning or twisting from the selected position, but itself acts as a guiding-sight to supplement the effeet of the alining device upon the head.

It will be observed that the turning axle of the handle lies in a plane which intersects the head, leaving the weight of the latter so dlS- tributed on either side of that plane as to cause little or no tendency for rotation in either direction. In other words, the head is not overweighted on either side, so that the usual loose hold may be indulged in without danger of the striking-face becoming slightly twisted during the stroke.

Other means than the specific means described may be em loyed for indicating the proper alinement o the head, so that the ball when struck will follow the path intended. The invention, moreover, may be applied to clubs of a construction and shape other than that shown, and it is obvious that extensive modifications may be made in the form, arrangement of parts, and the details herein disclosed, which latter' are submitted for the sole purpose of illustrating but one embodiment of my invention.

I claim-- 1. A golf=club having a striking-blade provided with a striking-face and alining means carried by said blade, a handle secured to and projecting upward from said blade, said handle having agrasping portion of an elongated cross-section, the long cross-sectional: dimension of said handle grasping portion lying substantially parallel with the striking-face of said blade, the weight of said blade being distributed on either side of the plane-of the turning axis of said handle thereby preventing material tendency to rotate the head about the handle axisr 2. A golf-club having a head provided with an alining means for assisting aplayer'when preparing for and delivering the blow to aline the head in the desired direction and a handle elongated cross-section, the orig cross-sec-x 1 jecting upward from one end of said head, said handle having a grasping portion of an elongated cross-section, the long cross-sectional dimension of said handle grasping portion lying substantially parallel with the striking-face of said head, and alining meansassociated with the head for assisting the player in delivering the blow'in the desired direction. 7

5. A golf-club having a striking-blade provided with a striking-face, a handle secured thereto, a tongue extending from said blade, and an alining device upon said tongue and at right angles to and above the striking-face,

the weight of, said blade and tongue being distributed on either side of the planeof the turning axis of said handle, thereby preventing material tendency to rotate the head about the handle-axis.

6. Agolf-club having a striking-blade providedwith a striking-face and alining means formed with said blade, a handle secured to and projecting upward from one end of said blade, said handle having a grasping portion of an elon ated cross-section, the long crosssectional imension of said handle grasping portion lying substantially parallel with the striking-face of said blade, the weight of said blade being distributed on either side of the planeof the turning axis of saidhandle thereby preventing material tendency torotate t'he blade-about the handle-axis.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERIOK C. BLANCHARD Witnesses: v v i ROBERT il-ITLTLLER, Enwnv F, DAL AN.v 

